Moving from one hoster to another

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   The hosting company that I am doing business with has been purchased by another company and I am forced to migrate all of my sites to the new location. One customer uses WebWiz Forums and the application and database were moved automatically by their migration software.
At first when I tried to logon I received a blank page so I read various documents and I discovered that the necessary connection information was retained in database_settings.asp, so I revised the fields to reflect the new hosting domain. (It's a SQL implementation).

Unfortunately it still fails, and here is the output:

Server Error in Forum Application
An error has occurred while connecting to the database.
Please contact the Forum Administrator.

Support Error Code:- err_SQLServer_db_connection
File Name:- database_connection.asp
Forum Version:- 11.04

Error details:-
Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server
Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [53].

Can someone tell me what this means? Is there a proper way to do that migration that I need to follow? I'm kind of desperate to get the system back running after nearly a week of down time!